Cole Helbling cole-h

✴️ How to sideload with SideStore and LiveContainer

Last Edited: Mar 30, 2026 @ 7:45AM PST · Supports iOS versions 15.0 - 26.3

_{Make sure you are always using up-to-date guides to ensure full compatibility. The official SideStore documentation can be found here in case anything changes. For additional information and credits, scroll to the bottom of this page.}

Important • iOS 26.4 broke the method used by SideStore and this tutorial to refresh apps. A new guide will come soon for people on iOS 26.4 once the necessary tools are available.

👋 Hello again, r/sideloaded!

Build a NixOS config, copy it to a tmpfs, and enter it, shutting the running userspace (but not the kernel) down. This can be useful e.g. for repartitioning the system or switching it to a new zfs pool, without the need for extra installation media, and is a little faster than most other volatile system methods (e.g. kexec, classic USB or CD installer), since the store is in RAM and uncompressed right from the get-go. It also copies the SSH host keys from the building system to maintain the chain of trust in a remote system.

This guide was replaced with https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs/blob/develop/docs/getting_started.org#install-doom-alongside-other-configs-with-chemacs

	## ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

	# Schema published automatically on the website. This allows TOML language
	# servers to autocomplete and show documentation for the entries below.
	#
	# I use the prerelease version as my builds on my machines are often from trunk.
	"$schema" = "https://jj-vcs.github.io/jj/prerelease/config-schema.json"

	## ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	## ---- Basic settings

	{
	"runner": {
	"identity": "test-builder"
	},
	"checkout": {
	"root": "/tmp/ofborg"
	},
	"nix": {
	"system": "x86_64-linux",
	"remote": "daemon",

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	set -e

	BRANCH=master
	TARGET=/etc/nixos

	ref="$1"
	oldrev="$2"
	newrev="$3"

	{
	services.nginx.virtualHosts."hostname".locations."/prometheus".proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:9090";

	services.prometheus.enable = true;
	services.prometheus.stateDir = "prometheus2";
	services.prometheus.extraFlags = [ "--web.external-url=http://hostname/prometheus/" "--storage.tsdb.retention.time=3d" ];
	services.prometheus.scrapeConfigs = [
	{
	job_name = "node";
	static_configs = [{ targets = ["hostname:9100"]; labels.distro = "nixos"; }];

	# The following is adapted from https://github.com/reswitched/loaders/blob/master/nxo64.py
	#
	# ===========================================================================================
	#
	# Copyright 2017 Reswitched Team
	#
	# Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or
	# without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission
	# notice appear in all copies.
	#

	{
	# FIXME: do this properly and contribute
	systemd.services.zfs-mount.requires = [ "zfs-import.target" ];
	systemd.services.zfs-mount.wantedBy = [ "local-fs.target" ];
	}

	###############################################
	# TX SX OS unpacker - by hexkyz and naehrwert #
	###############################################

	from Crypto.Cipher import AES
	from Crypto.Util import Counter
	import os
	import struct

	"""